Sergey Brin Says Using A Smartphone Is 'Emasculating' In Push For Google Glass

If you ran a company that makes billions of dollars off of the software that runs on smartphones, would the first word you use to describe them be "emasculating"? Because that's what Sergey Brin chose.

Brin concluded: "It’s kind of emasculating. Is this what you’re meant to do with your body?"

Perhaps it wasn't the best word choice. What exactly is "emasculating" about rubbing a piece of glass? What makes the objectively silly looking Google Glass any cooler or more masculine? Whether or not he meant to say that smartphones are effeminate, he certainly did mean to disparage the smartphone in general, and bad-mouthing smartphones when you're the co-founder of the company that owns Motorola and makes Android is, to an outsider, strange.

Android, Google's mobile operating system, owns 31 percent of the U.S. smartphone market share as of January 2013. But like Apple, which introduced the iPhone in 2007 knowing that it would cannibalize iPod sales, Google doesn't seem to be afraid of sacrificing its young.

Sergey Brin Says Using A Smartphone Is 'Emasculating' In Push For Google Glass

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Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin

On April 7, Google co-founder Sergey Brin was the first Googler to be spotted in the wild wearing Google Glasses. He wore the futuristic specs to a charity event in San Francisco. Somewhat ironically, the charity at the event was a foundation fighting against blindness, and the event centered around a dinner eaten in total darkness.<br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/7050489913/in/photostream/lightbox/" target="_hplink">Via Flickr of Photographer Thomas Hawk</a>.